Business financial book.



H. N. FRENCH.

BUSINESS FINANCIAL BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1911.

Patented July 29, 1913.

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Business rmnucnu. noox.

Application filed November 28, 1811. lot-ill 80. 081,980.

'7 '0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that'I, Hnmsnn'r NonLFanNoH, subject of-the 'Kin of England, residing at West Kirby, in 516 county of Chester,

5 England, have invented certain new and useful Ini rovementsin and Connected with Business inancial Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to financial books used in businesses of various kinds, for the kee in" of accounts, such for instance as cash ioo lis, and especially those cash books which are adapted or used for entering sums paid out by checks, or entered as 5 received on formal receipts, invoices, and

the like; the chief object being to provide improvements in connection with such books by which the amount of labor expended in entering items, or writing up the books, is

o rendered less than at present, thus saving time and cost of labor.

'fhelimprovements apply-both to account the ordinary way, or in connection with 5 books of the loose leaf kind. In connectiinr with each page of the account book, such as a cash book, or sheet, as the case may be (but it may be assumed for convenience to be a book), there is employed a number 0 of blank bank check forms, which overlap one another to a large extent leaving one part or edge of each check, namely the top edge underneath, which is not lapped by the others, and comes in contact with the 5"'sheet-or page below; and these checks are provided with a space on the front, along this top edge for the rece tion of the-name of the payee, and short co umns ordivisions for the entry of sums of money for which 0 the check or other-document-is:drawn,:and-

similar to those used, or which may be used, in the book, and coinciding therewith; and if a transfer medium of any suitable kind be introduced betweenthe top of the uppermost 5 check, and the sheet or page of the book "upon which they are laid, when the name of the payee or person andthe sum is written 7 along the top of the check or'the like, they will also by means of the transfer medium, 0 be written and entered in the cash book, and in their proper places, which maybe the usual ones. Thus the actual writing or filling up of the check or the like, efiects also the entry of the articulars of the check in 5 the cash book. y this means only about one-thirdof the amount of entering items or writing up booksywhich is entailed in the ordinary manner of keeping accounts, is

necessary when using this system.

The drawinghereto annexed which illustrates the invention, and in connection with which it will be further described shows a s euncauon of mm: ma PathhtedJ 1y29, '19'1'3.

page of a financial book designed to have entered in it the amounts and checks drawn, with a age or sheet of checks laid over it, and which are to be written out.

In the drawing a generally represents the page of the financial book; and o the sheet or pa e of blank checks. On the a "e a,

it wil be seen there are, on the le t and.

side, columns for the voucher or checknu mbersand dates; in the middle is'the spa'ce for receiving the name to whoin the checks are made payable;'and on the right handis the,

column for receiving the amounts of the various checks. These data, viz., the name, date, andamount of money of two checks drawn are, shown entered on the sheet. Of the sheet or page of blank checks 0 which is laid over the pagea, the two upper checks which have been drawn, and the names of the payees, and the sums for which they were drawn, have been entered on page a, are shown removed, that is, torn oflt from the portion 0}, at the left hand side where they areadhered together. Phe other or mam portion of each check at the right hand side of this part, is independent of the other checks; that is they are arranged in the mannerof leaves, one upon the other; and

when removed, are separated from the parts 0 along the line-o which is the line along which they are all perforated, so that the bodies can be easily torn off from the stump o'rtions o in the well-known wa. Of the inc 0 the upper po'rtibn ext'en ing down from the top, to'a ppint upon the -uppermost remaining chec is shown as a full line, and represents the inner edges of the stum 7 portions of the two checks referred to, w ich have been removed. This uppermost cheek is shown written out along the line at the upper part of it; and this part being above the upper edge of the check next below, if a sheet of transfer paper be between the checks 0 and the page a, the writing of the name and sumon-thet dine 0", would cause them also to be entered in the name column on page -.a, similarly as they ap ar on it. a I

The 0t and dash line'at the top' of the page or sheet of checks o,- represents the edge of the uppermost check, prior to any of them being torn oil.

The horizontalfull lines on page shown tion of checks, and entries in any suitable way.

Instead of a separate carbon or like copy or manifolding' transfer sheet beingplaced between the checks and the sheets, as above described,the transfer medium may consist of a carbon substance or the like such as is often used for transfer or manifolding purposes, and may be' applied directly to the under side of the top overlapping edges of the checks upon which the particulars referred to, are to be written; and such transfor medium is of such strength that it will only take effect when the pressure is applied directly to the other side of the paper so that only the writing on the top of the check would be transferred to page a.

While, as stated, the invention can be applied and used in connection with the ordinary kind of bound account or business books, it can also be used in connection with the loose-leaf system of account or business books of difierent kinds with very great advantage.

NVhat is claimed is 1. In business books and registers, a plurality of forms secured together at their ends and arranged oneabove the other, with one part of each form extending beyond a part of the top of the next form beneath it, and with a second part of each form extending beyond a part of the next form above it, the vertical edges of all the forms Y being in alinement, the. part of each form which extends beyond the top of the next succeedin form having thereon vertic'al'and horizonta lines, a sheet arranged beneath all the forms with the first mentioned one part of each form arranged next to and in contact with it, said sheet having a plurality of horizontal lines which are in alinement with the horizontal lines on the'forms, the sheet also having vertical lines in alinement with the vertical lines on the forms,.and a transfer medium interposed between the firstl' mentioned extended part of all the forms, and the sheet. i 1

2. In combination, a sheet provided with a seriesof horizontal spaced lines and a series of spaced vertical lines which'cross the horizontal lines and form {vertical columns, a plurality of checks laid over the sheet, said checks being secured together at their ends, and each check having a horizontal line substantially in alinement with: one of the horizontal lines on the sheet, the checks overlapping, and their free end edges being arranged inv vertical alinement and terminating inside the free end edge of the sheet to expose ione complete vertical column on said sheet, thetop of each check extending over the upper part of the adjacent check, the horizontal lines of said cheeks being on the overlapping portions and registering successively with the horizontal-' J 80 lines on the said sheet, the overlappin part .of all the checks being next to the sur ace of the sheet, and a transfer'medium interposed between the overlapping part of ,all ofv the checks and the sheet.

In testimony whereof- I havesigned my name to this specificationin the'presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

' 1-1 NOEL ranuon. Witnesses: i I

SOMERVILLE Gooo ALL, Josarn D. HUNTER.-'- 

